Google’s newest addition to its artificial intelligence-powered messaging app, Allo, takes a page from the company’s search engine. The new bot, called Lucky in what some surmise is a nod to Google Search’s longstanding “I’m Feeling Lucky” feature, lets you type a word or phrase in text and receive an applicable GIF.

The bot works less like the all-purpose Google Assistant and more like a standard bot made familiar by apps like Slack. That means you can simply tag @lucky in any message thread followed by the phrase you’d like it to translate into GIF form. The bot then parses the text you provided and retrieves an appropriate animation.

From my time with the bot on my personal Allo account, I noticed it tends to take a…

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